Statistical downscaling of daily climate variables for climate change impact assessment over New South Wales, Australia

Climatic Change

Volumn 115, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 629-666

  Liu, De Li ^a,b   Zuo, Heping ^c  

^a NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^c NSW Office of Water   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS CORRECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATE STATISTICS; CLIMATE VARIABLES; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DOWN-SCALING; EMISSION SCENARIO; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HIGH CONFIDENCE; INVERSE DISTANCE-WEIGHTED INTERPOLATION; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NEW SOUTH WALES; NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; SPECIFIC SITES; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STOCHASTIC WEATHER GENERATOR; TIME-SCALES; VALIDATION PERIODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERPOLATION; STOCHASTICITY;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84868703616     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0464-y     Document Type: Article

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